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A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1950-1975 is the first publication to deal with the postwar avant-garde in the Nordic countries. The essays cover a wide range of avant-garde manifestations in arts and culture: literature, the visual arts, architecture and design, film, radio, television and the performative arts.
It is the first major historical work to consider the Nordic avant-garde in a transnational perspective that includes all the arts and to discuss the role of the avant-garde not only within the aesthetic field but in a broader cultural and political context: The cultural politics, institutions and new cultural geographies after World War II, new technologies and media, performative strategies, interventions into everyday life and tensions between market and counterculture.
It is the first major historical work to consider the Nordic avant-garde in a transnational perspective that includes all the arts and to discuss the role of the avant-garde not only within the aesthetic field but in a broader cultural and political context: The cultural politics, institutions and new cultural geographies after World War II, new technologies and media, performative strategies, interventions into everyday life and tensions between market and counterculture.
Price: $70.00
Pages: 858
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Avant-Garde Critical Studies
Publication Date:
07 February 2019
ISBN: 9789004361744
Format: Paperback
"Serien A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries er utrolig viktig, både i seg selv og som en del av en økt oppmerksomhet rundt nordisk modernisme. I dette andre bindet, som strekker seg fra 1950 til 1975, får vi essays om nordisk kunst fra Öyvind Fahlström til den alternative Melodi Grand Prix. Blant de 85 (!) essayene beskrives Galleri Køpcke i København, Pistolteatern i Stockholm, De skandinaviske situasjonistene (selvfølgelig), Morten Krohgs periode som intendant på Kunstnernes Hus i Oslo, Lene Adler Pedersen og Bjørn Nørgaards kvinnelige kristus-performance på Børsen i København, Kjartan Slettemarks passprosjekt med portrettet til Nixon, og enormt mye annet. Når de to siste bindene foreligger vil vesentlige deler av det 20. århundres nordiske avantgarde være beskrevet i dette bokverket.
Den virkelige revolusjonen kommer imidlertid når dette blir pensum for kommende kunstnere og kunsthistorikere. Da vil endelig den Paris- og New York-sentrerte fortellingen om modernismen kunne erstattes med en bredere, global fortelling, der også Norden inngår."
- Jonas Ekeberg, Kunstkritikk
www.kunstkritikk.dk/artikler/24-desember-jonas-ekeberg-2/
Den virkelige revolusjonen kommer imidlertid når dette blir pensum for kommende kunstnere og kunsthistorikere. Da vil endelig den Paris- og New York-sentrerte fortellingen om modernismen kunne erstattes med en bredere, global fortelling, der også Norden inngår."
- Jonas Ekeberg, Kunstkritikk
www.kunstkritikk.dk/artikler/24-desember-jonas-ekeberg-2/
Tania Ørum, cand. mag. (1975), is associate professor at the University of Copenhagen. She has published monographs and articles on modernism and avant-garde and is General editor of A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries, a subseries of Avant-Garde Critical Studies (Brill | Rodopi).
Jesper Olsson, PhD (Stockholm 2005) is associate professor at the Department of Culture and Communication, Linköping University, Sweden, where he leads the research group "Literature, Media History, and Information Cultures". He has published extensively on literature, media, and the avant-garde.
Jesper Olsson, PhD (Stockholm 2005) is associate professor at the Department of Culture and Communication, Linköping University, Sweden, where he leads the research group "Literature, Media History, and Information Cultures". He has published extensively on literature, media, and the avant-garde.